Violet

“She told Aurelia he was a "a violent Adam," "a breaker of things and people," "arrogant, used to walking over women like a blast of Jove's lightning," she had spent less than a week with him.”
― Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

“I am living now in a kind of present hell and god knows what ceremonies of life or love can patch the havoc wrought. I took care, such care, and even that was not enough, for my being deserted utterly.”
― Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

“My head is bloody, but unbowed / May children's bones bedeck my shroud.' Sylvia felt physically and emotionally trapped by the house and all its demands; "Learning the limitations of a woman's sphere is no fun at all.”
― Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

“She wants to flow out, and here her love lies coiled inside and choking her, because her father is her double, her shadow, and she does not know which one is real. One of them must die so that the other may find the boundaries of himself.”
― Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice